Lansing Fisheries Building
a.k.a. Lansing Fish Hatchery;Lansing Fish Rescue Station
Between Co. Hwy. X-52 and the Mississippi R., south Lansing, Lansing, IAThe Lansing Fisheries Building is significant under National Register Criterion A for its association with the fish conservation work carried out under the direction of the State Fish and Game Warden (after 1931 the Iowa Fish and Game Commission, and after 1935 the State Conservation Commission.) From the turn of the century until about 1940, the fish conservation program in Iowa consisted of restrictive laws coupled with fish rescue, captive breeding, and restocking. All three of the latter operations were carried out at Lansing. In this regard, the structure reflects the earlier philosophy of wildlife conservation which placed greater emphasis on species propagation and relatively less emphasis on habitat protection and wildlife ecology, as discussed in subsection II of Section E, "Wildlife Conservation."
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
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